The icon that started out as a radio mast

Here's one that always surprises people. The CN Tower wasn't built to be looked at. It was built to be listened to.

By the late 1960s, Toronto's skyline had grown tall enough that new skyscrapers were bouncing television and radio signals around the city, and reception everywhere was getting worse. The only real fix was to build an antenna taller than anything else downtown, so in 1973 they started pouring concrete for exactly that, nothing more romantic than a broadcasting problem. The observation deck, the glass floor, the whole reason people visit today, all came after. For a while, it was just the tallest way to fix bad TV reception.

I painted it in watercolour and ink, that long grey spire against the skyline. There's a poster, with a letter home and a postcard if you'd like one.

Shop the poster here: CN Tower, Toronto · Travel Poster